Combat Expertise tweaks

[faceroll]

How would you feel if Combat Expertise didn't have a +5 cap to it and, if wielding a shield, granted 2 to 1 returns to AC? This makes shields more valuable, reduces the chance you get dead by a (ranged) touch attack, and dramatically decreases the amount of power attack damage you're taking.

[Cog]

How would you feel if Combat Expertise didn't have a +5 cap to it and, if wielding a shield, granted 2 to 1 returns to AC? This makes shields more valuable, reduces the chance you get dead by a (ranged) touch attack, and dramatically decreases the amount of power attack damage you're taking.

The main problem with shields isn't the amount of AC they provide, it's that they cut so badly into your damage potential, or that that penalty is cut out so easily with the Animated enhancement. Add in a fix for those problems (which I suppose ToB does, to an extent) and this sounds pretty good.